Monday, February 27, 2012

Happy Tuesday-What month is February

Supreme Court of the United States met for the first time, February 1,
1790.Louis S. St.
Laurent, second French-Canadian prime minister of Canada, born
1882.American writer
Langston Hughes born 1902.

Ground-Hog Day. February 2 By the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico gave New Mexico and California to the United
States, February 2, 1848.

so California is actually a Mexican word??? No wonder there are a lot of Mexican restaurants in CA;))

James Joyce,
Irish novelist and poet, born 1882.Violinist Jascha Heifetz
born 1901.The last German troops surrendered in the Stalingrad pocket,
completing the Soviet Union's victory at Stalingrad, during World War II,
1943.

Confederate States of America organized by a temporary committee that met at
Montgomery, Ala., February 4,1861.Philippine
Rebellion against the United States began, 1899.Charles A.
Lindbergh, American aviator, born 1902.Yalta Conference
began, 1945.Amendment 24 to the U.S. Constitution, banning poll tax,
proclaimed, 1964.

Aaron Burr,
American political leader, born February 6, 1756.Massachusetts ratified the
Constitution, 1788.Home run king "Babe"
Ruth born February 6, 1895.The United States Senate ratified the peace
treaty ending the Spanish-American
War, February 6, 1899.Ronald Reagan,
40th President of the United States, born in Tampico, Ill., February 6,
1911.Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth
II of Great Britain, February 6, 1952.Amendment 20 to the United States
Constitution, moving Inauguration Day to January 20, proclaimed, February 6,
1933.

Talleyrand,
French statesman, born February 13, 1754.Grant Wood,
American painter, born February 13, 1891.

Valentine's Day. February 14.Oregon became the 33rd state to join the
Union, February 14, 1859.John Barrymore,
American actor, born February 14, 1882.Arizona became the 48th state,
February 14,1912.

Galileo,
Italian astronomer and physicist, born February 15, 1564.Inventor Cyrus McCormick
born February 15, 1809.Susan B. Anthony,
American woman suffrage leader, born February 15, 1820.Elihu Root, U.S.
statesman and lawyer, born February 15, 1845.

Mary I, first
reigning queen of England, born February 18, 1516.John Bunyan's Pilgrim's
Progress was licensed for publication, 1678.Jefferson
Davis took the oath as provisional President of the Confederate States of
America, 1861.Wendell Willkie,
American political leader, born 1892.San Francisco's Golden Gate
International Exposition opened, 1939.

Polish astronomer Nicolaus
Copernicus born February 19, 1473.David Garrick,
English actor, born February 19, 1717.Thomas A. Edison patented the
phonograph, February 19, 1878.

Astronaut John
H. Glenn, Jr., became first American to orbit the earth, February 20,
1962.

George
Washington, first U.S. President, born in Westmoreland County, Va., February
22, 1732.German philosopher Arthur
Schopenhauer born February 22, 1788.James Russell
Lowell, American poet, born February 22, 1819.The United States acquired
the Florida territory from Spain, February 22, 1819.

Samuel
Pepys, English diarist, born February 23, 1633.English composer George Frideric
Handel born February 23, 1685.W. E. B. Du Bois,
American civil rights leader, historian, and sociologist, born February 23,
1868.Amendment 25 to the U.S. Constitution, on presidential succession,
proclaimed, February 23, 1967.

Jose de San
Martin, liberator of Argentina, Chile, and Peru, born February 25,
1778.Enrico
Caruso, Italian singer, born 1873.Amendment 16 to the Constitution,
authorizing the income tax, proclaimed, 1913.President Ferdinand
Marcos of the Philippines resigned from office and fled the country,
1986.

Victor
Hugo, French poet and novelist, born February 26, 1802.Napoleon escaped
from island of Elba, 1815.American frontiersman William Frederick
Cody, better known as "Buffalo Bill," born 1846.